OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Public Health is 66. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethnic disparities in complete and partial molar pregnancy incidence: a retrospective analysis of arab and jewish women in single medical center	298
Parents’ attitudes towards the No Jab No Play legislation in Western Australia: a mixed methods study	291
Behavioral and psychosocial factors and their effects on insomnia among people undergoing entry quarantine in hotels during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in Guangzhou, China	276
The individuals’ awareness and adoption of electronic health records in China: a questionnaire survey of 1,337 individuals	274
Evaluation of measurement properties of the German Work Role Functioning Questionnaire	215
Correction: Social determinants of health during and after coronavirus: a qualitative study	209
Discordance between perceived risk and actual risky sexual behaviors among undergraduate university students in mainland China: a cross-sectional study	177
Construction of Xinjiang metabolic syndrome risk prediction model based on interpretable models	174
A text-mining study on emotional cognition, understanding, and preventative behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic	170
The CONFIDENT study protocol: a randomized controlled trial comparing two methods to increase long-term care worker confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines	167
All-cancer incidence and mortality in Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and their descendants in England and Wales	158
(In)Congruences in parent-adolescent reports of physical activity parenting practices: associations with adolescent physical activity	140
Assessment of national reimbursement anticancer medications availability in China: based on a medical institution perspective	137
Integrating early child development into an existing health and nutrition program: evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial	131
Pre-vaccination RT-PCR negative contacts in workplace settings show high, SARS COV-2 neutralizing antibody levels	118
The National Cancer Aid monitoring (NCAM-online) of ultraviolet radiation risk and protection behavior: a population-based observational trend study with four annual online survey waves	117
Impact of rehabilitation services on employment outcomes for individuals with physical disabilities: a propensity score matching analysis	116
Exploring the practice of Iranian adolescent females during menstruation and related beliefs: a qualitative study	113
Viral blood-borne infections testing and linkage to care cascade among persons who experience homelessness in the United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis	110
Unhealthy food consumption and its determinants among children aged 6–23 months in Bangladesh: insights from the Demographic and Health Survey 2022	107
Fetal birthweight and maternal urinary incontinence in Chinese primiparas: a population-based study	106
Spatial variation of cardiovascular mortality in Cali, Colombia, between 2010 and 2017	102
School closures and well-being-related topic searches on Google during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa	99
Respiratory conditions and health symptoms associated with air pollution amongst children aged six years and below in Melusi Informal Settlement, Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: a cro	99
Changes in metabolic overweight phenotypes over time and risk of nephrolithiasis: a cohort study	97

Assessing hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among Guatemalan primary school students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	97
Correction: YouTube online videos as a source for patient education of cervical spondylosis—a reliability and quality analysis	96
Correction to: Do the implementation processes of a school-based daily physical activity (DPA) program vary according to the socioeconomic context of the schools? A realist evaluation of the active at	96
The COVID-19 experience among international migrant workers in the Republic of Korea: knowledge and awareness of treatment and immigration policies	95
Association between Mediterranean diet and metabolic health status among adults was not mediated through serum adropin levels	95
Correction to: A cross-sectional study of community perceptions of stigmatization amongst women affected by UN-peacekeeper perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse	94
Correction to: Factors associated with generalized anxiety disorder in adolescents with cultural diversity: secondary data analysis	92
Correction: To isolate or not to isolate: the impact of changing behavior on COVID-19 transmission	92
Teachers’ knowledge about the principles of dealing with a student with type 1 diabetes mellitus	91
Changes in body mass index and behavioral health among adolescents in military families during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study	89
The effect of smoking on latent hazard classes of metabolic syndrome using latent class causal analysis method in the Iranian population	89
Vaccine equity implementation: exploring factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine delivery in the Philippines from an equity lens	88
Perception of couples’ on multipurpose prevention technology attribute choice: the case of MTN 045	88
Mind matters: a comparative study of self-reported severity of depression and cognitive symptoms in China and the USA	87
Effects of participation and learning in sports clubs on self-perceived health status, self-perceived physical strength status, and health behaviors	87
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its association with rapid weight loss among former elite combat sports athletes in Serbia	87
Youth experiencing homelessness at risk for suicide: psychosocial risk factors and service use patterns	86
Characterizing TIA and stroke symptomatology in a population-based study: implications for and diagnostic value of FAST-based public education	82
The impact of parental migration on left-behind children’s tooth health in China	80
Association of frailty with physical activity behaviour and well-being in older employees: moderated mediation by functional difficulty	79
The role of physical activity on healthcare utilization in China	78
Palestinian law to protect family and prevent violence: challenges with public opinion	76
Knowledge and perceptions about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, mother-to-child transmission of HIV and HIV prevalence among antenatal attendees of a Ghanaian tertiary health institution	76
Promoting HIV care continuum outcomes among people who use drugs and alcohol: a systematic review of randomized trials evaluating behavioral HIV care interventions published from 2011 to 2023	76
Cost-effectiveness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease population screening in China: based on individual data from WHO Collaborating Centre-initiated ‘Enjoying Breathing Program’	75
Iron deficiency at birth and risk of hidden hearing loss in infants modification by socioeconomic status: mother-newborn cohort in Shenyang, China	74
Associations between cardiovascular diseases and cancer mortality: insights from a retrospective cohort analysis of NHANES data	74
Cancer incidence and mortality in the occupational cohort of a German toxic waste landfill: a retrospective cohort study	73
Adaptation and application of the Parent Attitudes About Childhood Vaccines survey tool in the Vietnamese language: a cross-sectional study	73
Association between birth length, linear growth velocities, and primary school achievement at age 10 years: evidence from the Ethiopian iABC birth cohort	73
The development and evaluation of an intervention to promote the uptake of preventive tasks by occupational physicians targeting work-related mental health problems: protocol for the IM-PROmPt-study	72
Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors in children and adolescents: evidence from an Australian cohort	72
A collaborative approach to develop an intervention to strengthen health visitors’ role in prevention of excess weight gain in children	72
Factors associated with age at first screening for cervical cancer among adult Cape Verdean women: a cross-sectional study	72
A mixed method investigation of teacher-identified barriers, facilitators and recommendations to implementing daily physical activity in Ontario elementary schools	71
Educational differences in years lived with disability due to mental and substance use disorders: a cohort study using nationwide Norwegian and Danish registries	71
Barriers to malaria prevention services in pregnancy: a multi-methods study in rural western Uganda	69
Widowed and at risk: increasing HIV prevalence among widowed women in Siaya county, Kenya in the last decade, 2011–2022	68
Opportunities for enhancing dietary diversity and environmental sustainability of supplementary nutrition program under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme - a qualitative study in Srikak	68
The origins of California’s gun violence restraining order law: a case study using Kingdon’s multiple streams framework	67
Association between tea types and number of teeth: a cross-sectional study of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey	67
Long-term trends in the global burden of maternal abortion and miscarriage from 1990 to 2021: joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort analysis	66
A survey and cause analysis of community resilience in a Chinese city from the perspective of nursing	66
Investigating e-health literacy and its relationship with self-care behaviors among Iranian Middle-aged type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study	66